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Urban Bedbug Onslaught Is A Curse On Dense Living, Recycling, & Energy Efficiency
Bedbug. Image credit:wikipedia
Bedbugs are are becoming quite the urban plague again, resurgent and causing much misery in US cities after decades of being a relatively rare problem.
Group sues over Wyoming-to-Oregon gas pipeline
AP - An environmental group that wants to block construction of a $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon filed a lawsuit Friday, saying the pipeline will cut across pristine land and harm endangered fish.
The South has renewable energy too!
by David Roberts.
Barring something unexpected, Democrats are expected to move to cloture on the Senate energy bill on Monday, for a vote on Wednesday.
Math whiz tackles the big carbon sink puzzle
by Seth Shulman.
Inez Fung is on a mission to
find and account for every gram of heat-trapping carbon dioxide on the planet.
And she knows where most of it is hiding.
House passes oil-spill response bills
by Agence France-Presse.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday
voted to overhaul offshore-drilling safety rules and protect whistleblowing
workers in a sweeping response to the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The White
House-backed legislation would end a $75 million cap on energy firms’ liability
for economic damages from oil spills, a controversial provision that has run
into stiff opposition in the Senate.
Photo contest winners: Waste on the water
by Grist.
We’re down in the dumps. But you get what you ask for, right?
We asked you, our oh-so-sharp readers, to send us your photos of polluted or degraded waterways. The results are not pretty. Plastic trash, invasive weeds, garbage so plentiful it creates its own damn dam –- we feel like we’re floating in the Pacific Garbage Patch. And the video you sent? There are no words.
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